A strong local agent can tell you what the approximate value is easily and quickly. 

You can easily handle the guest communication, especially if you use a PMS like Hospitable or similar that has canned message responses, and AI integration. 

You can easily do this on a spreadsheet, and it will take less time to track than finding and learning new software.

That's why the private money lenders are able to beat the wholesalers so easily and close a myriad of deals wholesale lenders will turn away immediately since they can't sell them on the secondary market easily. 

You could find those contacts pretty easily. 

I know I can review the leases and that should give me gross rents but everything else seems easily manipulatable. 

I did look at some of the material participation criteria and we should easily surpass the requirements since we pretty much spent time improving the home ourselves, managed all guest communication, etc.Thoughts?

You can easily do this on a spreadsheet and it will take less time to track than it would to find and learn a new software.

If they are professional, they can explain this quickly and easily.

What I like about the BP calculator is that you can easily adjust the number to see where the variables need to be to break even.